Murder she wrote

Montage of Feck

Double bill of the greatest murder mystery show ever right now on tg4.
Not the horse ffs.

Jordan 199

Jessica Fletcher is some lady. Can have a murder solved in around an hour.

368100

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Jessica Fletcher is some lady. Can have a murder solved in around an hour.

Can't beat The Fletch

riffmongous

I remember years ago I was in the uni library cramming for an exam and someone's left-at-their-seat phone started blaring out a ringtone version of the theme tune.. I wasn't sure if it was epic or cringe

Nigel Fairservice

I always watch it when I'm home sick from work. Reminds me of being 8 years old and being home sick from school :pac:

RMAOK

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Jessica Fletcher is some lady. Can have a murder solved in around an hour.

That's because she committed the murder herself. The hour is spent trying to frame some poor innocent bystander for her actions.

riffmongous

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

I always watch it when I'm home sick from work. Reminds be of being 8 years old and being home sick from school :pac:

Or those long summer holidays where it was pissing rain everyday and watching it became a ritual

Montage of Feck

Decapitated by an electric gate, it's a bit more violent than I remember.

Nigel Fairservice

I always found it odd that the sheriff, Amos Tupper, never got the hump with Jessica for always showing him up and doing his job for him. He was always ok with that.

foxy farmer

Cabot Cove. Had the highest murder rate in the world. And her interfering in every crime scene. No wonder CSI came about.

Arghus

I have vague memories of her travelling to Cork for one episode and even as a tiny kid I knew it was totally cornball stuff.

ballsymchugh

only saw this thread now, missed the first one. did anyone tape it? and does anyone have the lend of a vcr that i can watch that tape on??


ooh.. 'lovers and other killers'

glad i caught this one. a classic.

gozunda

The irish ghost story episode featuring a haunted castle has to be up there with Ryan's Daughter in the Dodgy Fake Oirish Begorah Stakes ...

ballsymchugh

fookin hell, wasn't expecting the aul wan to get strangled while singing toora loora.

Dank Janniels

I think there were 2 Oirish episodes so they were to be shure, think 1 of them went abit like the Field or sumthing bout an inheritance or sum shoite!!

Raconteuse

Only watched it the other day. Jess rocks over to San Francisco where a drag performer is "iced" and the fabulous drag community of SF make many bitchy quips as J interrogates them.

Top notch.

dd973

There seemed to be about 8,000 episodes of it running for seemingly 27 years, probably not but it certainly seemed that way.

kneemos

Craig Ferguson from The Late Show had a theory that Jessica Fletcher and Paul McCartney were the same person.

gozunda

gozunda wrote: »

The irish ghost story episode featuring a haunted castle has to be up there with Ryan's Daughter in the Dodgy Fake Oirish Begorah Stakes ...

Ryan's Daughter is one of the most underrated films of all time, even in spite of its Oscars. Its courage in refusing to pander to one or other side of historical interpretation when exploring the real complexity of the struggle for Irish Independence is heroic, honest, and challenging.

No other text has so successfully managed to challenge the simplistic, naïve republican narrative, before or since. Irish independence was hard won. Women fell in love with men, and with women on both sides; and vice versa. Ryan's Daughter is one of the most serious and honest accounts of modern Irish history that has ever been recorded.

Yurt2

RMAOK wrote: »

That's because she committed the murder herself. The hour is spent trying to frame some poor innocent bystander for her actions.

Angela Lansbury has as a house in West Cork. Ian Bailey / Du Plantier mystery solved - it was the American auld wan in her holiday home whodunnit.

mondeo

She lives in Cork now I believe

RocketRaccoon

I loved the show when I was younger but the actress herself, wow what a miserable bitch.

Raconteuse

Her son and daughter got caught up in the drug haze of the bleaker side to the hippy counterculture in a big way. Hanging out with the Manson family too.

Love the series, still watch it if i catch it while flicking through the channels, i prefer the Cabot Cove ones myself, not so much when she went international. Cornball stuff but great too watch.

topper75

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Ryan's Daughter is one of the most underrated films of all time, even in spite of its Oscars. Its courage in refusing to pander to one or other side of historical interpretation when exploring the real complexity of the struggle for Irish Independence is heroic, honest, and challenging.

No other text has so successfully managed to challenge the simplistic, naïve republican narrative, before or since. Irish independence was hard won. Women fell in love with men, and with women on both sides; and vice versa. Ryan's Daughter is one of the most serious and honest accounts of modern Irish history that has ever been recorded.

Brave statement, but I won't contradict! It's a good movie and did a lot for the area even if half of it was shot in South Africa. If I could only fix one thing - the actor playing the Brit soldier wasn't superb and I would swap him out.

I can only imagine the poster that referenced it as a standard for Oirish twee actually meant Darby O'Gill and got mixed up.

randd1

The show should be renamed Murder She Did.

Come on people, she's clearly the psychotic serial killer, it only seem to happen when she's around.

gozunda

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Ryan's Daughter is one of the most underrated films of all time, even in spite of its Oscars. Its courage in refusing to pander to one or other side of historical interpretation when exploring the real complexity of the struggle for Irish Independence is heroic, honest, and challenging.

No other text has so successfully managed to challenge the simplistic, naïve republican narrative, before or since. Irish independence was hard won. Women fell in love with men, and with women on both sides; and vice versa. Ryan's Daughter is one of the most serious and honest accounts of modern Irish history that has ever been recorded.

That may be - the fake Oirishness of much of it still makes me cringe to be fair ...

And no not thinking of Darby O'Gill lol ...

RhubarbCrumble

I could never figure out why the people of Cabot Cove didn't just ask Jessica Fletcher to leave town.

Thelonious Monk

Now I have that f*cking theme tune stuck in my head

meeeeh

Excellent wardrobe. Who ever was the stylist for that show did very good job.

Yes I am that sad...

DelBoy Trotter

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Now I have that f*cking theme tune stuck in my head

I just went and looked it up on YouTube as I hadn't heard it in years !

Nigel Fairservice

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

I always found it odd that the sheriff, Amos Tupper, never got the hump with Jessica for always showing him up and doing his job for him. He was always ok with that.

The kgb gave out to her and told her to stop interfering.
She eventually won em around though

Mad_maxx

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

I always watch it when I'm home sick from work. Reminds me of being 8 years old and being home sick from school :pac:

Reminds me of visits to my granny, she loved miss marple too

MrAbyss

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Double bill of the greatest murder mystery show ever right now on tg4.
Not the horse ffs.

HRT and Homocide what's not to love.

Raconteuse

Love watching all those amateur sleuths if I'm off sick.

Diagnosis: Murder? Diagnosis: first class entertainment!